PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of ...

How this latter came to be is the subject of an article by [Ernie Smith], focusing on floppy disk storage. Although 3M was not the one to invent floppy disks or magnetic storage, their expertise ...

Two-thirds of under-18s don't know what a floppy disk is In 2018, researchers showed 2,011 kids photos of different technologies and asked them to name each one. The results showed 67 per cent ...